1992 Kansas Highway Patrol SSP

[NoDrama43]

ohhh yeh I like that.... Do you think some sort of flattening agent would take away some of that gloss? That color is spot on !

[1988Bullitt]

Originally Posted by NoDrama43

ohhh yeh I like that.... Do you think some sort of flattening agent would take away some of that gloss? That color is spot on !

I have seen clear flattening additives but never used them. I know DuPont has a line of semi-gloss and flat clear coats. I think the flat would probably be the way to go for a 100% correct resto. That 90GT underbody was straight auto clearcoat Nason 496-00 it’s a lot glossier then the picture makes it seem, but like I said that’s what the owner wanted. The POR15 I sprayed came out as a semi-gloss, it’s probably a little to shiny to be OEM but I wanted a really good coating on that rear section of the car. I am going to use a semi-gloss clear on the floor pans so it matches the rear section of the under body.

[MOstang]

You're going to have quite a pair of SSPs when this one is done. Very nice.

[NoDrama43]

Hey Aaron if you don't mind can you send me the part #s for the stuff? I will try some of that on the bottom of the 85 Texas car.

[1988Bullitt]

Originally Posted by NoDrama43

Hey Aaron if you don't mind can you send me the part #s for the stuff? I will try some of that on the bottom of the 85 Texas car.

Jim, are you looking for the DuPont stuff or POR15? Here is the POR15, I will have to look up the DuPont stuff when I get home.

http://www.por15.com/POR-15/productinfo/1GB/

[1988Bullitt]

OK, so now that the fire is going again under my butt I have some more slight progress to share. A couple weeks ago my buddy Brandon who is an amazing welder and metal fabricator helped me replace the last pieces of the body that had rust on them. The only thing we have left to do is the front section of the floor boards.

Here is the lower section of the left rear quarter panel. It had no rust on the outside but some rust on the inside, I figured I am this far I want to get the car to no rust anywhere at all. This is another donor panel from Ron’s ISP 4057 SSP.



This is how the right hand wheel arch came out, I had to get this from a donor car in the junk yard. I cut all the patches and Brandon did the welding, grinding, fitting, it’s like it was never done, I have not blocked it yet but it does not feel like it will even need a skim coat. Like I said he is amazing with metal!

[1988Bullitt]

Same drill as the rest of the body, soda blasted the hood, etch primed and 2k primed. There is a dent I need to take care of in the driver’s side front corner, but this dent is one more thing that actually helped me identify the car, long story I hope to share one day.

Now that all of the body panels are repaired, blasted primed, and have had an initial blocking I will be spraying all of them with the new Spies very high build polyester so I can get the entire body as straight and smooth as possible. My paint supplier has been talking this stuff like crazy so I figured I would give it a try. It’s essentially like skim coating the whole car, the technical manual shows you can build the coating up to 100mils. I don’t need anything that crazy but I do need to clean up what the previous painter did to my metal shell when it was prepped last time.